[00:02.840]Yeah
[00:04.700]I know sometimes things may not always make sense to you right now
[00:10.300]But hey, what daddy always tell you?
[00:13.960]Straighten up little soldier
[00:16.370]Stiffen up that upper lip
[00:19.200]What you crying about?
[00:21.090]You got me
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[00:22.330]Hailie I know you miss your mom and I know you miss your dad
[00:25.180]Well I'm gone but I'm trying to give you the life that I never had
[00:28.240]I can see you're sad, even when you smile, even when you laugh
[00:31.270]I can see it in your eyes, deep inside you want to cry
[00:33.990]Cuz you're scared, I ain't there?
[00:35.410]Daddy's with you in your prayers
[00:36.800]No more crying, wipe them tears
[00:38.170]Daddy's here, no more nightmares
[00:39.620]We gon' pull together through it, we gon' do it
[00:42.200]Laney uncles crazy, aint he?
[00:43.470]Yeah but he loves you girl and you better know it
[00:45.390]We're all we got in this world
[00:47.100]When it spins, when it swirls
[00:48.070]When it whirls, when it twirls
[00:49.510]Two little beautiful girls
[00:50.970]Lookin' puzzled, in a daze
[00:52.290]I know it's confusing you
[00:53.800]Daddy's always on the move, mamma's always on the news
[00:56.520]I try to keep you sheltered from it but somehow it seems
[00:59.020]The harder that I try to do that, the more it backfires on me
[01:01.820]All the things growing up his daddy that he had to see
[01:05.000]Daddy don't want you to see but you see just as much as he did
[01:07.680]We did not plan it to be this way, your mother and me
[01:10.190]But things have gotten so bad between us
[01:12.600]I don't see us ever being together ever again
[01:14.700]Like we used to be when we was teenagers
[01:16.420]But then of course everything always happens for a reason
[01:19.330]I guess it was never meant to be
[01:21.150]But it's just something we have no control
[01:22.960]over and that's what destiny is
[01:24.810]But no more worries, rest your head and go to sleep
[01:27.320]Maybe one day we'll wake up and this will all just be a dream
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[01:30.350]Now hush little baby, don't you cry
[01:33.060]Everything's gonna be alright
[01:35.050]Stiffen that upperlip up little lady, i told ya
[01:38.270]Daddy's here to hold ya through the night
[01:41.090]I know mommy's not here right now and we don't know why
[01:44.480]We feel how we feel inside
[01:46.440]It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby
[01:49.150]But i promise momma's gon' be alright
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[01:52.290]It's funny
[01:53.200]I remember back one year when daddy had no money
[01:56.170]Mommy wrapped the Christmas presents up
[01:57.310]And stuck 'em under the tree and said some of 'em were from me
[02:00.560]Cuz daddy couldn't buy 'em
[02:01.320]I'll never forget that Christmas I sat up the whole night crying
[02:04.610]Cuz daddy felt like a bum, see daddy had a job
[02:07.410]But his job was to keep the food on the table for you and mom
[02:10.390]And at the time every house that we lived in
[02:12.700]Either kept getting broke into and robbed
[02:14.810]Or shot up on the block and your mom was saving money for you in a jar
[02:18.590]Tryna start a piggy bank for you so you could go to college
[02:21.610]Almost had a thousand dollars till someone broke in and stole it
[02:24.950]And I know it hurt so bad it broke your momma's heart
[02:27.279]And it seemed like everything was just startin' to fall apart
[02:30.050]Mom and dad was arguin' a lot so momma moved back
[02:33.320]On the Chalmers in the flat one bedroom apartment
[02:36.140]And dad moved back to the other side of 8 Mile on Novara
[02:39.790]And that's when daddy went to California with his CD and met Dr. Dre
[02:43.460]And flew you and momma out to see me
[02:45.930]But daddy had to work, you and momma had to leave me
[02:48.690]Then you started seeing daddy on the T.V. and momma didn't like it
[02:52.529]And you and Laney were to young to understand it
[02:54.570]Papa was a rollin' stone, momma developed a habit
[02:58.010]And it all happened too fast for either one of us to grab it
[03:01.240]I'm just sorry you were there and had to witness it first hand
[03:03.700]Cuz all I ever wanted to do was just make you proud
[03:05.630]Now I'm sittin in this empty house, just reminiscing
[03:08.730]Lookin' at your baby pictures, it just trips me out
[03:11.000]To see how much you both have grown,
[03:12.390]it's almost like you're sisters now
[03:15.420]Wow, guess you pretty much are and daddy's still here
[03:18.390]Laney I'm talkin' to you too, daddy's still here
[03:21.200]I like the sound of that, yeah
[03:22.650]It's got a ring to it don't it?
[03:24.430]Shh, momma's only gone for the moment
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[03:26.460]Now hush little baby, don't you cry
[03:29.310]Everything's gonna be alright
[03:31.570]Stiffen that upperlip up little lady, i told ya
[03:34.580]Daddy's here to hold ya through the night
[03:37.220]I know mommy's not here right now and we don't know why
[03:40.810]We feel how we feel inside
[03:42.790]It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby
[03:45.440]But i promise momma's gon' be alright
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[03:48.560]And if you ask me too
[03:50.330]Daddy's gonna buy you a mockingbird
[03:52.680]I'mma give you the world
[03:54.700]I'mma buy a diamond ring for you
[03:56.590]I'mma sing for you
[03:58.600]I'll do anything for you to see you smile
[04:00.610]And if that mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine
[04:04.030]I'mma break that birdies neck
[04:06.300]I'd go back to the jewler who sold it to ya
[04:08.940]And make him eat every carat don't fuck with dad (haha)
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